Posts tagged ‘porting’

208 words by gman999 written on 2015–11–19, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: pets, porting

After the June 2 13 Snowden disclosures a rush towards developing applications to counter mainstream closed-source services commenced. Many focuse on Debian Linux as a development platform but aim at more widely used Windows OSX iOS and Android user-base. Beyond client applications there are also network-based servers and services seeking to provide privacy and anonymity.
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The a href “http://mirrors.nycbug.org/pub/snapshots/packages/amd64/” Tor Browser 5. .3 packages were updated again due to the need for icu4c version 56.1. Both devel/nspr and textproc/icu4c are updated in the OpenBSD ports tree and the TB packages have been rebuilt for them. Be sure to make sure packages or ports are updated before installing. If the host is updated there’s no need to use our devel/nspr or textproc/icu4c packages.
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353 words by gman999 written on 2016–03–20, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: pets, porting

Porting Targets for PETs is meant as a hit list of privacy enhanncing related ports that may or may not be in the main BSD port/package systems. As we make clear on the page some should be considered for entry into BSD ports systems while others may not be good candidates for a variety of reasons.
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This post describes what I do to get an update ready for the Tor
Browser ports under OpenBSD. All of this
is done on -current the OpenBSD head of line although backporting
this work to the -stable release is high on our list of things to
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